Patrick Pontillo's Photographic Timeline Tower ... for anyone curious

    

Maroon: School Color

College Days.

West Virginia lass

Mississippi woman

Circa the Turn of the Century, on the grounds of the formerly world
famous J&L Steel Mill in Aliquippa, PA.  I was literally the last man to
perform demolition on that site.  I took out the remaining foundation slabs.

Michigan gal

MyAustralian  Outback Gal at one time; a true woman of valor.

The Summer of 2010

Late Summer, 2010

November 2014 

January in  a well-heated construction office.  

Personal photos that didn't get lost through the years.

It's an Italian thing.

Just friends, once upon a time.

Hey,  that's my Davy Crockett hat.

The Italian thing again.

The dance-floor body-snatcher girl.

The same body snatcher lady.

She was infatuated with Russian culture.
So, that's why we're at an Egyptian exhibit.

Australia Outback Gal

I didn't stop traveling after the 12,000 mile road trip; nor stop learning.

For those unfamiliar, in the Summer of Year 2012, I road traveled solo for six-
ty days, covering 12,000 miles in the process.  My travels didn't end with the
12,000 road trip, even though I intended it to be so.  I eventually ended up in
the Shenandoah Valley early in 2013, for a couple of months, after a stay in
Pittsburgh.  I then went to the Midwest, in the general Great Lakes vicinity,
and next back to Pittsburgh, only to take an unplanned trip into Florida.  In
fact, my trip to the Shenandoah Valley was due to the death of an individual
whose longevity evaporated, due to a medical condition that accompanied him
at birth. 

The Long Distance Learning Session

In having covered the distance that I did, I learned things that aren't learned
by politicians who show-up at airports, in order to stay in comfortable hotels
and give campaign speeches on what needs to be done in today's world;  in a
world to which they're completely out of touch, outside of listening to lobby-
ists who don't lobby for the common good, but only for self-seeking interests.

Below are photographic mementos of my recent travels, after the 12,000 mile
road trip of 2012.  If time permits, I'll include those one-line lessons I learned
on the road which I wouldn't have learned otherwise.  It's that which the Newt
Gingriches & Rush Limbaughes, as well as the John Kerries & the Joe Bidens
of this world, won't otherwise perceive & absorb.

As a score-keeper's note:  I traveled as far north & east as Boston/Cambridge,
as far west as Oxnard California, and as far south as the Space Coast of Florida.
My travels took me through:  1} Massachusetts, 2} Connecticut, 3} New York,
4} Pennsylvania,  5} Maryland,  6} West Virginia,  7} Virginia,  8} N.Carolina,
9} South Carolina,  10} Georgia,  11} Florida,  12} Alabama,  13} Mississippi,
14} Louisiana,  15} Tennessee,  16} Arkansas,  17} Texas,  18} Oklahoma,
19} New Mexico,  20} Arizona,  21} California,  22} Missouri,  23} Iowa,
24} Illinois,  25} Indiana,  26}Ohio.

If I ever come to have the time do so, I guess that I could state which state had
the best & worst of this, that, and the other thing ... personalitywise.  For now, prudence.

The northeast coast of Florida.

Downtown Saint Augustine, oldest city in the United States.

At port, in downtown Saint Augustine.

The land of the Shenandoah Valley

Metropolitan psychedelia, via sunlight & plate glass, Downtown Pittsburgh.

More psychedelia in the Pittsburgh region.

Progressive Field, Cleveland, in contrast to ...

... Heinz Field, in Pittsburgh

The Space Coast of Florida

The famous race track is on the main highway, in plain sight.

Take note of the palmetto tree in the background

Baltimore trolley

East Florida

Pittsburgh, the land of many technological firsts.

Cuyahoga National Park in Ohio

20 miles northwest of Pgh, along the Ohio River

Gettysburg

Gettysburg was a meditative place.

A Chesapeake area suspension bridge

One of my alma maters: Located at the Gulf coast of Florida.

Add Chicago to the equation

No introduction needed here.

Northern Illinois

                                    Below:  We need to add Wisconsin to the equation, also.

Milwaukee

Same area

Inside a Milwaukee Museum

The First Time I Was Nationally Published, Part 1

This is in the Harvard University Library, a Northwestern Univ. library, a North Carolina Univ at Chapel Hill library and a few other ones.  I was 20 years old when I was first published.

The First Time I Was Nationally Published, Part 2

As was previously stated, this is in a Harvard library,at Cambridge Mass,
Northwestern University and North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a few others.

An Available Literary Credit

Concerning writing, I was influenced at the academy, at a young age.  It was one 

teacher who brought it out.  Then, at a private university, it was one professor who 

refined it ... a Renaissance scholar and laureate published thousands of times.  

You have to be in control of your senses and perception as a matter of instinct, in
order for you to notice what needs to be conveyed or expressed in writing.  You
can't do it by a rigid set of mechanics.  You still need to possess the sensitivity to
notice things that others overlook, no matter how many teachers are involved in
your education.

If you can feel it, whatever it is at the time you are feeling, you can communicate it;   
if you're in control of your senses while communicating.  If you're not in control,
then your writing will become melodramatic, sickeningly sweet, or rigidly starched.